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one more day before all of us -- most of us flee the coop for the holidays. >> today is my day to hopefully finish my shopping. i've got like three more gifts to get for -- i'm not going to say for who. three more. >> bill: man i'm done. >> i'm not done at all. i've got an hour and a half worth of work tonight. >> bill: oh, really? gotta get out there. >> i'll be there. >> bill: do you know where the apple store is by the way? >> i do. >> bill: it is not that far away. >> i've got one in bethesda. in walking distance from my apartment. >> bill: is it really? >> oh, yeah. >> bill: here's something you might consider. if you -- you know, looking for like a good read, i told you a good read that i took with me when i went to istanbul a couple of weeks ago. i took a read -- not a good read. but everybody was talking about it so i just wanted to find out what the hell it was all about. i read "fifty shades of gray." it is nothing but porn. it is not even good porn. certainly not good fiction but if i had known, i would not have taken the book. i would have taken the audiotape of george takei rea
one more day before all of us -- most of us flee the coop for the holidays. >> today is my day to hopefully finish my shopping. i've got like three more gifts to get for -- i'm not going to say for who. three more. >> bill: man i'm done. >> i'm not done at all. i've got an hour and a half worth of work tonight. >> bill: oh, really? gotta get out there. >> i'll be there. >> bill: do you know where the apple store is by the way? >> i do. >> bill: it...
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and listen to us on the way as you are getting ready and watch us here. you can do that on current tv of course. you can listen to us on your local progressive talk radio station and on sirius xm this hour only. maybe that will change one of these days when they come to their senses. it's good to have you with us today. there is a lot of news to talk about. vice president biden having his first meeting of the tax force on -- task force on guns meeting with law enforcement officials and meeting with members of the president's cabinet. and last night, a bombshell on capitol hill when john boehner couldn't get enough republican votes to even have a vote on his so-called plan b, a col lossal embarrassment for john boehner. we have all of that to talk about. so that's why we have assembled our team this morning and a good group of guests, too we will tell you about. peter ogburn off with his family celebrating their holiday. dan henning. we have henning for you. >> dan: we do. i am looking at this coun countdown clock here >> bill: the official clock is what?
and listen to us on the way as you are getting ready and watch us here. you can do that on current tv of course. you can listen to us on your local progressive talk radio station and on sirius xm this hour only. maybe that will change one of these days when they come to their senses. it's good to have you with us today. there is a lot of news to talk about. vice president biden having his first meeting of the tax force on -- task force on guns meeting with law enforcement officials and meeting...
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follow us on twitter. join us on twitter. more and more people do. at the whitehouse, so many of the reporters were saying how much they love following us on twitter. you should, too, at bp show @bp show @bpshow and facebook/billpressshow. team press here for the fifth day in a row all together. this is a new record action i think. here we are five days. nobody took a day off. peter ogburn and dan henning. >> happy friday. >> and cyprian bowlding wearing god knows what hat this morning. our videographer in chief. >> the washington fuel team he is representing with his hat. >> redskins hat. >> they changed their uniforms. no. it's a weird sort of -- >> did they change their name? >> not yet. >> they should change their name. >> not yet. they are playing the baltimore ravens. big game. goad up the shoreway at baltimore. >> fedex field. >> which is halfway. >> by any stretch of the imagination, fedex field is not in washington. >> no. no. no. >> it's maryland. >> they should have played right here at rfk stadium if you ask me. >> baltimore ravens begins
follow us on twitter. join us on twitter. more and more people do. at the whitehouse, so many of the reporters were saying how much they love following us on twitter. you should, too, at bp show @bp show @bpshow and facebook/billpressshow. team press here for the fifth day in a row all together. this is a new record action i think. here we are five days. nobody took a day off. peter ogburn and dan henning. >> happy friday. >> and cyprian bowlding wearing god knows what hat this...
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give us a call at 1-866-55-press talk to us on twitter at bpshow and follow us on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow to help us through the events of the day. someone who writes about them every day several times a day for "daily beast," michael tomasky, columnist for the "daily beast" joining us in studio. you write for so many publications. you also do some stuff for new york review, books? >> yeah. those are my main two things. >> bill: then you have democracy. >> democracy. journal of ideas. i'm the editor of it. i write for it once a year or something like that. very nice of you to mention democracy, i would like to see people check out democracyjournal. >> bill: there it is. michael tomasky. nice of you to take time for us. our regular team here on deck as always. peter ogborn and dan henning. >> happy tuesday. >> bill: good morning, good morning. phil backert's got the phones cover and cyprian bowlding, of course, has the cameras covered. cyprian -- >> still very excited this morning. >> bill: very excited this morning about the redskins. knocking off the giants last night. just
give us a call at 1-866-55-press talk to us on twitter at bpshow and follow us on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow to help us through the events of the day. someone who writes about them every day several times a day for "daily beast," michael tomasky, columnist for the "daily beast" joining us in studio. you write for so many publications. you also do some stuff for new york review, books? >> yeah. those are my main two things. >> bill: then you have...
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>> saddam hussein used them. his father is rumored to have used them as well. >> family tradition. >> family tradition you're right. this is deadly stuff. i mean it is not like he needs chemical weapons to kill hundreds of people. he's been doing that. 40,000 killed over 20 months of this war. a couple of million displaced. 200,000 refugees. chemical weapons have that terror element. you drop this on a city. disperses a cloud. and it causes a panic unlike any other weapon. >> you mention a brokered piece that maybe assad would step down and leave. is that really a possibility? is there a chance if russia came in, he would step down? or is he going to battle until the last? >> up until this morning i thought assad was going to battle until the last, go down like gadhafi. he's got nowhere to go. this is his territory. his family has ruled the country for 42 years. he won't give it up. always the hope that something will happen. but you know russia could be the missing element here. if they're willing to come in and
>> saddam hussein used them. his father is rumored to have used them as well. >> family tradition. >> family tradition you're right. this is deadly stuff. i mean it is not like he needs chemical weapons to kill hundreds of people. he's been doing that. 40,000 killed over 20 months of this war. a couple of million displaced. 200,000 refugees. chemical weapons have that terror element. you drop this on a city. disperses a cloud. and it causes a panic unlike any other weapon....
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give us a call at 1-866-55-press. that's our toll free number or you can follow us on twitter. i would love to hear from you at bpshow. on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow. and we've got this big chat room national chat room going on every morning if you go to current tv and click on the chat room you're in with your fellow "full court pressers" across the land. you guys can debate the issues online while we're talking about them on air. the wonderful world of talk radio and talk radio news, we are all part of a big family. part of a big network. and one of our colleagues joins us in studio this morning. she's actually the bureau chief for talk radio news. i see her at the white house as well. ellen ratner. >> thank you. good to be here. >> bill: ellen is also a head of a project of her own. she does wonderful work around the world. goats for the old goat. you're the old goat? >> i started it for my 60th birthday. that was a year and a half ago. >> bill: i wasn't going to ask you. >> born in 1951. >> bill: proud of it. >> i'm proud of it. >> bill: we'll find out what goats
give us a call at 1-866-55-press. that's our toll free number or you can follow us on twitter. i would love to hear from you at bpshow. on facebook, facebook.com/billpressshow. and we've got this big chat room national chat room going on every morning if you go to current tv and click on the chat room you're in with your fellow "full court pressers" across the land. you guys can debate the issues online while we're talking about them on air. the wonderful world of talk radio and talk...
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stay with us. you're about to watch an ad message created by a current tv viewer for capella university. matter. >> i work with adults with developmental disabilities. growing up i had a single mother of four and people in the community were so helpful when they didn't even have much themselves. seeing people and their hardships made me want to make a difference in people's lives to give them hope. receiving a masters degree would open the doors for me to get into a management position where i would be able to do more for people. [ boy 1 ] hey! that's the last crescent. oh, did you want it? yea we'll split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light buttery and flakey. that's half that's not half! guys, i have more! thanks mom [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents. let the making begin [ singing christmas carols in background ] aunt sally's singing again. it's a tradition honey. [ singing christmas carols ] mmmm. [ female announcer ] make new traditions with pillsbury grands! cinnamon rolls. [
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